In
recent months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised the
prospect of a defense treaty between Jerusalem and Washington on
several occasions.

A
former US secretary of defense and an ex-IDF chief of staff on Monday
rejected a proposed America-Israeli mutual defense pact, saying such a
measure was unnecessary.

“This
is not necessary, not when Israel is at its peak military capability,
compared to its enemies. This is not something that it is correct to
advance now..," said former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot.

The
former IDF chief of staff, whose tenure ended in 2019, noted that two
of the IDF’s most impressive military feats - the 1981 Operation Opera
that destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor and the 2007 Operation Orchard
that destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor - would likely never have
occurred, had Israel been in a mutual defense pact with the United
States at the time.

The
general consensus among Israeli defense officials is that a true mutual
defense pact, similar to the ones the US has with other countries,
could potentially bind Israel’s hands and prevent it from carrying out
military actions it believes to be necessary for the Jewish state’s
security.

However,
Eisenkot said such a defense treaty could become necessary if Iran or
other countries in the region acquired a nuclear bomb.

Former
US secretary of defense Ash Carter, who was also taking part in the
event, agreed that there was no need for a defense pact between the US
and Israel, as both countries already see eye-to-eye.

“I
think we — the US and Israel - can have a clear vision of our interests
and know that while these interests are not identical, they overlap
substantially. That is better than any treaty: that understanding that
we need each other,” said Carter...

Food for Thought.by Steven Shamrak

After
70 years of independence, having means to annihilate enemies and end
'perpetual' war and 'quiet' rocket attacks, almost nothing is done! In
the USSR people were enduring the hardship of life with the saying "as
long there is no war", as the Communist party kept reminding them of
horrors of WW2! In Israel, governments, both Left and Right of the
politics, do not want to end the war because it takes attention from
how useless and corrupt they are. Israel needs Maccabees!

The
United Nations General Assembly has adopted eight resolutions
condemning the State of Israel on Friday. Israel is the only country to
face this treatment today. Other countries like Venezuela and North
Korea will walk away with zero repercussions for their egregious abuses
of human rights. “Last month, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist
group assaulted Israeli civilians with a barrage of 400 rockets - while
the UN’s General Assembly and Human Rights Council stayed silent. The
world body now adds insult to injury by adopting eight lopsided
condemnations, whose only purpose is to demonize the Jewish state,”
said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.

Israel Internal Legal War

1.Likud Justice Minister Amir Ohana sent letterto
the offices of the State Prosecutor and the Attorney General, ordering
them to stop issuing messages which are signed by the Justice Ministry,
which gives the impression that he, Ohana, has endorsed them.

2.Over half, 56%, of Israelis are in favourof
establishing an independent inquiry committee to investigate the
alleged abuses of the Netanyahu investigations, including illegal leaks
and witness coercion. Israelis believe that the judiciary operated too
freely, with 68% of the respondents supporting the establishment of an
independent audit mechanism for the judiciary.

The
U.S. House of Representatives passed the 2020 National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes $500 million in security
assistance to Israel. The U.S. assistance authorizes cooperation with
Israel on counter-tunnel and counter-aerial capabilities, and $500
million for developing and procuring the Iron Dome, David’s Sling and
Arrow weapon systems.(Israel is not just the best ally the US has in ME, but also is the source of advanced technological development!And the “aid” has to be spent in the US, hurting Israeli companies.)

Public
Security Minister Gilad Erdan issued an order banning the Palestinian
Authority's Governor of Jerusalem Adnan Gheith from operating in
Jerusalem. This is the first time such an order has been issued against
Gheith on a personal level, banning him from conducting activities for
or funded by the PA. Former orders placed restrictions or bans on
specific events.

President
Trump signed an executive order to virtually define Judaism as a race
or national origin, not just a religion, under the Civil Rights
Act. The order is meant to address anti-Jewish bias in
universities. It also expands acts of anti-Semitism to include
anti-Israel statements. Trump's signature comes amid several
anti-Semitic attacks in America.(Jewish
religious and political leaders have never been brave enough,
especially during the last 30 years, to face the truth and to make this
definition!Through the history, Jews always were identified and treated not just as a religion, but as a nationality or ethnic group!It was also the case in Nazi Germany and even in socialist Soviet Union!)

Israeli
students fall below OECD average overall in reading, math and science,
putting Israel 37th out of 77 countries! The findings of the 2018
Program for International Student Assessment tests (PISA) that were
released this week showed a significant gap between Hebrew (Jews) and
Arabic (Arabs) speakers in Israel for all three of the educational
skills assessed - reading, mathematics and science - and revealed that
the divide was even bigger than found in the last such test in 2015.(A similar trend could be observed in the Israel national average IQ level. It is not the fault of Jews.)

The
US Senate unanimously passed a resolution that recognizes as genocide
the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to
1923. The Ottoman Empire was centered in present-day Turkey.(Enough with Stupidity of not 'Offending' Fake Islamic Friends!The indifference of the world to genocide of Armenians was viewed by Hitler as a 'green light' to commit the Holocaust.)

The
Palestinian Authority is continuing with its propaganda mission to deny
Jewish links to the land of Israel. Riyad al-Aileh, a Palestinian
political science lecturer from Al-Azhar University stated "If we look
at the history, we will see that they were not in Palestine in the
past, but rather only as invaders less than 70 years ago. For these 70
years they have been invaders..."(Where did he get his degree? He must have been talking about fake Palestinians!They say, "the best defence is offence".
In fear of finding/proving Jewish history and historic land ownership,
an independent archaeological research is forbidden in most Arab/Muslim
countries around Israel!)

Quote of the Week:

“The
miracle of Hanukkah is the miracle of Israel. The descendants of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob have endured unthinkable persecution and
oppression. But no force has ever crushed your spirit, and no evil has
ever extinguished your faith. That is why the Jewish people shine
as a light to all nations. And right now, I’m thinking about what’s
going on and the love that’s all over Israel and all about Jerusalem.”- US President Donald Trump,at Hanukkah Party in the White House.

Concern for the Lost Jews!

by Steven Shamrak

I
can understand and even find justifications, from the Muslim point of
view, why Arabs do not want Jews to reclaim their land, Eretz-Israel.
After all, Arabs do not want any ‘infidels’, including Christians, in
the neighbourhood. Some religious orders motivated anti-Semites,
Christians and Muslims, also do not want to be proven wrong by the
return of Jews to the Holy Land and fulfilment of Jewish prophecy,
which makes their theological claims to inheritance of Jewish tradition
absolute!

At
the same time, there will always be the brainless Anti-Semitic idiots
who will need a scapegoat to blame, instead of taking the
responsibility, for their own stupidity and personal inabilities.

But
I shall never be able to fully understand and excuse Jews, who are
collaborating with and assisting our enemies to undermine the future of
Jewish people – existence of Israel. Though, Although, I do understand
the distorted psychology behind their self-destructive attitude and
behaviour, induced by PTST and the Stockholm Syndrome after prolonged
exposure to discrimination, abuse and violence.

Most
of them are aware that there is something wrong with their self-hating
attitude toward their own country, but they are still unwilling or
unable to address this self-destructive and self-hating behaviour and
revise their psychologically induced political standing. With the
progress made in the field of modern phycology they do not have an
excuse for this shameful conduct any more. They really need to start
soul searching and addressing this problem seriously!